"La Trobe University closed its Music Department at the end of 1999. This site has not been updated since February 2004. A new and updated version of the Medieval Music Database is currently under construction and should be available early in 2008: in the meantime we welcome your comments, corrections and additions.

The main features of the new version are a much expanded repertoire of works in addition to the melodic incipits of liturgical works. Four complete manuscripts, a gradual and three antiphonals, have been added. Browse by Liturgical Feast is entirely new. This displays the melodic incipit of each liturgical chant for each feast, analyses related melodies and displays colour images of source manuscripts. The Browse by Composers, by Genre and by Manuscripts remain the same as they were is the earlier versions. " ...

Welcome to the Mutopia Project ... a place where music is free for everyone! Download it, print it out, and share it. Mutopia is similar in spirit to Project Gutenberg, but consists of free sheet music.

Broadly speaking, copyright o­n a creative work expires 70 years after the creator's death. This means that the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and many other composers are in the public domain - in principle, they may be copied and performed without restriction.

However, you may not normally copy or perform a sheet music edition which you can buy, because an editor also has a copyright o­n the edition, and an arranger may have, too. " ...

"Saraband Music is located in Kilcoy, QLD, Australia. Saraband Music began in 1994, selling sheet music and facsimiles, strings and CDs. Publishing began in 1996. In 2004, the business changed to mainly publishing, and the string business was sold to Ian Watchorn in Melbourne. From 2007, Saraband Music continued to publish early music under both the Saraband and Hammer & Tongs Reproductions imprints, and introduced a new range of music and interesting products for customers, including antiquarian maps and cards. A private collection of old books, including many first editions is also being sold.

Saraband Music is owned by Patrice Connelly, who has the degree of M.Mus (Hons) from the University of Sydney. She plays and teaches viola da gamba, and has edited music for viols published by Dovehouse Editions (Canada), PRB Productions (California) and the Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain, and written articles and reviews for a number of journals. Her early musical studies were undertaken at the Conservatorium High School in Sydney, before progressing to the Music Department at the University of Sydney. She began playing piano at the age of 8, and violin at age 12. During her B.Mus, she also played viola before giving up both violin and viola for the viola da gamba. " See website for more information. (ed.)

" The Werner Icking Music Archive contains music-related stuff. Click on the name of a subdirectory containing scores, typesetting source files, additional README-files etc., or follow the composer links to enjoy the WWW-presentation of this music archive. The icon image points at images, the icon info at short information, and the icon PDF at a PDF-file. (To view a PDF file you must Download Acrobat Reader .) This is the definitive archive of software related to MusiXTeX, a music typesetting system based on TeX. You must have TeX installed before you can use any of this. To learn about TeX, try a google search on "TeX" and "Getting started" to see what's required. "

"Alamire Music Publishers concentrates on educational books in Dutch, facsimiles of musical manuscripts and scholarly works for the international market. Our collection of facsimiles of Renaissance and Baroque prints, is discontinued and liquidated at special discount prices." Visit website for more information. (ed.)

"Welcome to the International Music Score Library Project! IMSLP attempts to create a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge. You can read the full list of goals that IMSLP will try to achieve.

IMSLP also encourages the exchange of musical ideas, both in the form of musical works, and in the analysis of existing ones. " This site has been closed due to copyright issues. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

“This site houses an extensive, growing archive of texts to 102,452 settings of Lieder and other classical art songs (Kunstlieder, mélodies, canzoni, романсы, canciones, liederen, canções, sånger, laulua, písně, piosenki, etc.) and other classical vocal pieces such as short choral works, madrigals and part-songs, in over 100 languages, with 12,892 volunteer translations to English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages.

In this collection there are currently 64,356 texts associated with musical settings. Of these, 25,333 have not yet been located and are placeholders for cross-referencing, and 3,389 are hidden due to copyright restrictions, leaving 35,634 entirely visible to visitors. When possible, first lines are shown. “

“The "Edition Musica Poetica" is a music publisher of lesser-known music of the 17th and 18 Century North German composers. Central to the Edition project is the publication of the "Monuments of the Early Modern Music," an anthology of the monuments of the late 19th and early 20 Century-oriented editions.” … (Google Translate)

In the section of the EarlyMusicNews.org website labeled “(DE) Anton Höger: Lute Intavolations”, are offered pieces for Renaissance lutes in tablature for 2, 3, and 4 lutes in various tunings. All of the pieces have been carefully intabulated by Anton Höger, based his 20-year experience as a lutenist.

“Bach in Bombay is about original Indian and Bengale Music mainly for Piano/Harpsichord and Pipe Organ from the 18th century up to present times. Transcription of forgotten music from archives, Performances, Workshops to make it known to the Music lover.“

"Bärenreiter is one of the largest publishers of classical music worldwide.
Its extensive publication programme encompasses not only standard concert repertoire, but also educational music, contemporary music as well as music books.

From the beginning Bärenreiter has been working towards clear goals: to make a significant contribution to musical culture and to preserve the heritage of European music. So how did Bärenreiter set about to achieve these goals? It was Karl Vötterle's ingenious idea to create the concept of the New Complete Editions. He embarked upon an ambitious project to collect and publish the entire output of numerous composers, keeping to their original intentions.

Bärenreiter has been a pioneer in the publication of new scholarly Editions. Through the New Complete Editions Bärenreiter sets the musical standards for others to follow. In order to make these standards accessible to all practising musicians, without compromising the high quality musicological content, Bärenreiter publishes a comprehensive range of Practical Urtext Editions. " See website for more information. (ed.)

"Founded by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf (1695-1777) in Leipzig. The firm initially devoted itself exclusively to the printing of books. Later Breitkopf purchased the "Golden Bear House" near the Thomaskirche and the Nicolaikirche. Its heraldic animal still embellishes the publisher's mark to this day.

“Edition Baroque - Olaf Tetampel, Jörg Jacobi and Martina Bley - three experienced and high profile musicians in the field of early music, offer new editions of compositions of the 17th and 18 Century. ..“

“Rummage on these pages for notes for recorders (and othe instruments) and for art reproductions or music seminars. Find out about the ensemble competition with workshops, courses and exhibition in Bruchsal/Baden Württemberg.

Look at title pictures and score examples.

We deliver scores in foreign countries for the real costs.

You can download our annual prospect in 2009 with all new titles as a PDF document or print out.

However, they can also order our newsletter or you can send us a message.

"The publishing house Edition Walhall was founded by Franz Biersack in 1993 and is based in Magdeburg/Germany, Richard-Wagner-Straße 3.

Meanwhile, in addition to Church Music as one central field of work Vocal Music and Baroque Music (here particularly sheet music for viola da gamba, violin and trumpet) have turned out to be our other main editing focusses.

Edition Walhall is the world-wide distributor of editions by the German publisher Edition Güntersberg specialising in music for viola da gamba and consort music as well as the British RG Editions run by the Baroque violinist Richard Gwilt (London Baroque). ..." visit website for more information. (ed.)

The database of the Goettingen Bach Catalogue has been maintained by the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig since August 2008.

In addition to database records for all known Bach sources, detailed descriptions of manuscripts along with handwriting samples and watermark tracings will be provided by nearly every German library. (except Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Leipzig, Bach-Archiv, Staedtische Bibl./Musikbibliothek Regensburg, Sammlung Proske)

We refer you to the Bach digital project, currently in progress, with which the Goettingen Bach Catalogue closely cooperates.“

“Before starting with this database, I had indices of only a few manuscripts and a whole series of concordances lying scattered around. Then Markus Lutz sent around his compilation of Weiss' works with concordances, with the request to check the concordances, and the spark was generated to put some system in the information I had lying around, using Markus' info as the starting point, amplifying the project to other non-Weiss manuscripts. First of all, I chose a manuscript-based setup, and for each manuscript in my possession I listed the contents, along with the key in which the pieces were given. Where present, the manuscript-own page numbering was followed, while for others and ad-hoc numbering was applied. ..“

"The music publisher Universal Edition, which was founded in 1901 in Vienna as a publisher of classic instructional literature, developed rapidly within a few short years following its establishment into a future-oriented publishing house serving many of contemporary musical life's most creative talents.
Today, Universal Edition's catalogue encompasses over 30,000 items and is inseparably linked with the great composers and musical developments of the 20th and 21st centuries."
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